skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surprisingly, I think it is: I was going to comment that here, then checked Geekbench, single core scores match for M2 iPad/MacBook Pro/etc. at same clock speed. i.e. M2 "base" = M2 "base", but core count differs, and with the desktops/laptops, you get options for M2 Ultra Max SE bla bla.
Remember: If an existing inhabitant attempts diplomacy we mustn't believe their lies.
Isn't that (or still is) the attitude at early Amazon? i.e. using doors as desks. Seems prudent. Not sure if they still do that.

I've always hated startups where I've worked, that burn through HUGE sums of money (per-profitablilty) on expensive coffee/snacks/foosball tables. I feel like proverbial old man (The Simpsons) shouting at the clouds: "You know that fancy coffee you're drinking? it's future diluted equity!"

Of course, maybe there are ranges of being "cheap bastards". :)
This comes up frequently. 8GB is sufficient for most casual and light productivity use cases. Not everyone is a power user, in fact, most people aren’t.
Municipalities can require new builds to be own-only or place requirements on rentals. I live in a new development with such a stipulation. The land has a couple different developments, there's townhouses, a set of smaller lot houses, medium lot houses, and then some commercial zoning.

The medium and small lot houses have a no rental stipulation. I forget the exact terms but the houses have to go to individual owners and there's some residency requirements before you can offer it as a rental.
Interesting how many different offerings they have now outside of just spending the initial ~$1000 on the ipad itself. Purchasing the pencil, usb-c, key board, smart folio, logic pro (subscription), final cut (subscription), etc...

I'd be curious to know the average age of an ipad in circulation is now. I used an ipad for school from 2012-2017, never used the apple pencil, but it always worked great for my needs. My girlfriend got one for med school and uses it with the pencil especially when shes not at home.
Been trying to sell people on this for over 10 years. No luck so far though.
There was a sweet spot about 10 years ago when mortgage rates hit bottom but people were still afraid to buy and house prices were affordable. Mortgage rates today are still extremely low by historical standards, but unfortunately at the same time that mortgage rates have been rising, so have house prices (somewhat oddly), so affordability is horrible.

I think the comment you overheard is pretty typical - people are stuck in houses since if they sold and moved elsewhere their monthly payment would be double or more. People retiring and wanting to move from good job locations to cheaper retirement ones are not able to do so.
Exactly, and they also think they are helping to protect the network, but alas:

https://medium.com/@olivierjanss/why-non-mining-full-nodes-a...
J.G. Ballard predicted the rise of social media (2016)
(2021), site is now offline: https://dsresume.com/

Snapshot (Sept 30, 2021): https://web.archive.org/web/20210930190513/https://dsresume....
No they want to stop the price increasing
> Get a better job and start working weekends. A house isn't worth it if you're alive to enjoy it

Literally never seen this argument be made.

> Move to a poor area and gentrify the shit out of it. Everyone will love and appreciate you.

The last thing I think of when choosing a place to live are the societal implications of it. I really don't care if everyone "loves and appreciates me" because of my apartment choice.

> Maybe don't buy a house "yet". Keep paying your ever increasing rent, you'll get there someday

?
Looks great. Now put it in a real computer. Such a waste to be in a jailed device that can’t run anything.
"The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work" by Gottman. It's not the best writing in the world yet it's based on 50 years of actual research.

"Peopleware" by Tom DeMarco. It's a book every manager should read about how, maybe, you can create a team that jells.

"The Effective Executive" by Peter Drucker. Examines the necessities of knowledge work. What every manager and employee should read.
The key here though is that choosing a bleeding edge tech is more likely to be a problem because it's fairly untested.

I can tell you what ALL the problems with rails are. For the most part they won't even start to bite you until you hit scaling problems. By the time you hit scaling problems with Rails you can probably afford to pay engineers to solve the scaling problems, and/or port off at that point.

I love sveltekit and use it a bunch for my own personal projects, but it's too immature to recommend to others. Instead I mostly point them at Next.js if they want a javascript stack and Rails if they don't. I have created and maintained apps based on both platforms for 6 and 16 years respectively and know exactly what I'm recommending to people.
Probably. I'm so thoroughly disinterested in this class of games that I can't be bothered to remember the difference.
The most common situation where screen brightness is an issue for me is in rooms with big windows and a lot of natural light. On sunny days I find ~400nits to be about the minimum required to cut through glare on matte displays… for mirror-like glossy displays it’s even higher.
I was 19 in 2008, and I don't know if something like that will ever happen again now that the government has shown their willingness to dumping money to prop up any weakening asset.

Look at the pandemic, everything kept going up.
Aside from higher peak brightness I would assume it's also less prone to burn-in, the rate that OLED pixels degrade is proportional to how bright they run, and distributing the brightness over two stacked layers means each layer only needs to run roughly half as bright. Not exactly half since the top layer won't be perfectly transparent, but close enough.
Carmakers are moving to touchscreens because they don't have to custom design hard keys for each model and can just reuse the same design in every one, just tweaking the software. It's pure cheapness, not an improvement in any way.

Apple has been building the same home button for a decade. It's a simple, familiar interface. iPads cost hundreds of dollars. Engineering the cost of a button out of it at this point is pure greed.
What a curious comment: remarking on my appearance in direct response to my report that people judge me on my appearance. No matter that you meant it as a compliment (I must assume, despite your cryptic and neutral phrasing). This may surprise you, but I'd rather be known for the output of my brain than that of my follicles.
Show HN: AI agents to buy and sell startups
Are your mortgages cheaper than ours on average? I couldn't imagine doing a variable rate loan in the US. You can literally be had in a single year with a variable rate.
+1 on the med student usecase. Same with my SO.
Linux When?
I have iPad Pro from 2020 (pre M1). It's still way faster than I need (most heavy work I do on laptop) and still unbelievably good.

The only thing I miss is the ability to read under the bright sun. New Tandem screen unlikely to change it, so I'm opting in for 13.3" e-paper tablet. As I often read academic papers, that should be a killer one, but new 13" iPads also look promising for that!
I think it's about changing expectations.

If one becomes Reddit moderator then from day 1 they knew Reddit will benefit from them. If they didn't want it, they would not become one. When this changed (say Reddit closed their API) the moderators got really upset.

But when people posted on StackOverflow, they expected that their work is used by fellow humans, and that they get recognition for their hard-worked answers (even if it's just their name in the rank table). When this changed, people got upset.

Either way, I'd expect people who joined StackOverflow after this deal is announced are not going to be upset. But they are the minority, given how long SO has been around.
5 years ago the numbers were very different; in 5 years they may change again?

the only constant seems to be that if you didn't already own land x years ago, you can't win, you can only break even (if you're lucky)
Microsoft closing Redfall, Hi-Fi Rush studios among other cuts
Probably, but since we're talking about an Apple product, comparing it to macOS make sense, since they all share the same bottom layer.
I am not a large person by any means, yet I have no problem to carry a MBP 16...But then I have a backpack and not a messenger like bag, which I would agree, would be a pain to carry.
They'll manage to eventually enforce a massive RTO.
All I'm thinking about is what will Square do now. None of the iPads fit their Square Stand... I loved having a general compute iOS device on the stand for other apps, I hope they don't make us get their dedicated terminal...
As I understand, the serving temperature of coffee does have an effect on perceived acidity (which is NOT the same as pH), though I don't understand the science behind it. Here is one paper that claims it is due to release of volatiles at higher temperatures: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03088...

If that's correct, then warming the coffee again to that temperature would again speed up the release of volatile compounds, though what effect that might have on flavor is anyone's guess.
Having sold a couple of small startups over the years, I still find some of the processes time-consuming and frustrating. Communicating the opportunity, but also dealing with tire kickers. I think those, among other processes, can be delegated to AI.

Exit path is not a marketplace though. A team of AI agents learn from startups and then deliver insights and growth opportunities to help buyers make smarter, faster decisions, while helping sellers maximize returns through the sale process.
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Whats with All the Humanoid Robots?
We've seen a slow march over the last decade towards the unification of iOS and macOS. Maybe not a "it runs macOS", but an eventual "they share all the same apps" with adaptive UIs.
I was curious about that also, trying to look past the marketing speak on whether or not this is actually as big of a thing as they are saying it is?

Particularly compared to OLED on TV's.
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CyberRatings.org is a 501(c)6 non-profit organization, but access to the report costs $1500 USD[1]?

[1] https://reports.cyberratings.org/
The current tech meta seems to be coalescing around this notion of "even high-performance isn't enough to spare you from layoffs, be afraid!" It wasn't that high-performance always guaranteed your job would continue, but at least there'd be the idea that you'd get moved to a new team if you were a great performer.

To me, that just reinforces the notion that these layoffs are mostly about sending a message to workers and Wall St more than anything else.
> Still I don't recall design docs being important enough to matter for a promotion by themselves. Promos were supposed to be about overall impact, not production of specific artifacts.

How can you prove "impact" to a committee who otherwise doesn't know your work, without providing evidence in the form of docs, code examples, and other artifacts?
My iPad Pro turns 6 this year and still runs the latest operating system.
> It's pretty telling that he is advising people not to use Bluesky though, guess he isn't happy with the direction they are going.

From a outsider's point of view, telling users to jump ship when pressing the eject button sounds like an action out of spite, not something that has the users' best interests in mind.
I feel like I bought the M1 air yesterday. Turns out it was ~4 years ago. Never felt the need to upgrade.
I use Proton to protect myself from Google, Microsoft, advertisements, tracking, terrible, slow, “too much padding everywhere” UI, my emails/data being sold to 3rd parties, etc. I’m not worried about Proton cooperating with law enforcement agencies to catch criminals.

However.

What if say, russia/nk/china wants to catch somebody some journalist for speaking truth about their regimes? Or, like say, Jason Bourne exposing some IronHand in “democratic” country like USA? How can we protect good actors without enabling adversaries to do “bad stuff”? Is it even possible? I still don’t know the answer…
And then when private equity comes in and buys an entire new development to turn all the units into rentals, what do we do then? Nothing?
DHCP servers aren't connected to any IP routing mechanisms, so there can be arbitrary numbers of so long there aren't duplicate assignments(but even that isn't DHCP problem). IIRC the client randomly chooses one if multiple offers were received.
When Rails became popular I started using it on basic web site catalog / e-commerce projects in 2007. It was very difficult to deploy. Thanks to Heroku and other pioneering companies that is different today. However, at the time I left behind PHP and LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) which provided very simple and cheap deployment. Years later I regret that transition from using LAMP to Rails. I wish I had just stayed using PHP, it would have saved a lot of time and difficulty.

Question for people here on HN: Could a similar position to the blog post be taken in 2024, ie "Just use PHP (and LAMP)"?
Someone who needs a MacBook Air or mini or studio, not an iPad
I can't help but feel like something has gone fundamentally wrong when there are so many arbitrary strings in the system that this optimisation makes a tangible difference.
It's not designed to beat zstd, those are used for different scenarios. zstd is used for data compression, the meta string encoding here is used for meta meta encoding. Meta data here are classname/fieldname/packagename/namespace/path/modulename mostly. For such small string, any statistical compression won't have a smaller size.
Avoid syndicated content.

Actual article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-06/jack-dors...
Yeah try as I might I'm not able to help my autistic daughter understand how to process this change. I should probably buy a few of the old ones to keep on standby.
Witnessing the ideology shift of people from college to mid-30's made me realize that overwhelmingly people don't have unshakeable core beliefs (despite outwardly having such conviction), they just have beliefs that suit them in their current situation best.

It also finally illuminates the naivety of young people, which I had myself in spades but was totally unable to see.
And then people would stick alphabet-soup SD cards into their devices and complain about performance and data integrity, it's enough of a headache in the Android world already (or has been before Samsung and others finally decided to put in enough storage for people to not rely on SD cards any more).

In contrast, Apple's internal storage to my knowledge always is very durable NVMe, attached logically and physically directly to the CPU, which makes their shenanigans with low RAM size possible in the first place - they swap like hell but as a user you barely notice it because it's so blazing fast.
The GeekBench [1,2] benchmarks for M2 are:

Single Core:
iPad Pro (M2): 2539
Macbook Air (M2): 2596
Macbook Pro (M2): 2645

Multi Core:
iPad Pro (M2 8-core): 9631
Macbook Air (M2 8-core): 9654
Macbook Pro (M2 8-core): 9642

So, it appears to be almost the same performance (until it throttles due to heat, of course).

1. https://browser.geekbench.com/ios-benchmarks
2. https://browser.geekbench.com/mac-benchmarks
I recently gave using a 2nd gen 11-inch iPad Air as my daily driver, and I gotta say I like it a lot more than I was expecting.

I have a big beefy TrueNAS machine at home and run various Linux VMs for dev work, accessed via Tailscale; mosh-ing or ssh-ing in via Blink Shell is pretty much flawless. I can even institute my "Cmd = tmux prefix" trick that I do in iTerm (via mapping hex codes), so for me it's essentially the same dev workflow as my M1 MacBook Air, albeit with a worse keyboard and a smaller screen, but with the added benefit of LTE, which IMO is a fair trade off until we (Tim Apple, please) get LTE on the Mac lineup (not holding my breath).

The only thing I've been finding myself wanting is a larger screen and a better keyboard, and the 13-inch could potentially deliver both. It's a pretty appealing device.

That said, I of course wish that Apple would just let me treat it like a real computer and not have to connect to Linux VMs to get any work done, but hey, it's still a nice experience if it lines up with your workflow.
This is a neat idea, since cold brew has a common criticism of an oxidized flavor due to its long steep time. A shorter steep could get you the smooth flavor without the oxidation
There's an idea for hard sci-fi. Silicon backdoored with nanobots in sand.
It's worse than that - an attacker on the same local network as the target machine can tie up the legitimate DHCP server by reserving all available addresses and then start advertising themselves as an alternate DHCP server (to inject the malicious routing to the target).
In my experience, tablets tend to be a highly divisive device, either used a tremendous amount or not used at all. I have friends for whom the tablet was a primary computing device in high school and uni and they often use it more than their laptops. Meanwhile I hardly ever pick one up and can't really imagine buying one for myself.
if Apple of all companies -- after decades of moral high standing about polished user experience and charging a premium for their brand -- is shaving pennies off the cost by removing physical buttons ... that's a shame!

if 3nm chip manufacturing receives so much interest -- why not a fraction of that investment in engineering more durable, lasting, and cheap physical components too.

years later Apple might be the company doing "radical innovation", being "uncompromising when it comes to UX" and add a physical button and charge a premium for it
"Affordability" usually refers to cost of ownership, generally as a proportion to some sort of income metric, not the full value of the home.

If home prices don't fall in unison with increased rates sufficiently then of course monthly mortgage payments (or imputed rent) goes up and affordability metrics worsen.

I don't think this is making economists scratch their head so much, if so it's like how "experts don't know how the pyramids were made" -- we know many ways it could happen, we just can't prove which one. Even in the simplest model of valuation, it's not the current interest rate that determines the home prices, it's the full expected rate over the lifetime of the asset. Of course if interest rates are 5% today but expected to be 1% next year, the price will be based mostly on the 1%. The longer term bonds and hence longer term mortgage rates can capture a consensus expectation, but there can still be divergence of expectations by the marginal seller. My dental hygienist on selling her house "The government needs to cut rates back so that people can afford to buy my house" with unsaid portion as I heard it "at my arbitrary zero-interest-rate-phenomenon based expectation of value".
Doesn't have to be in person but small group who like each other and want to be helpful would work the same IRL on Slack or whatever else.

There is no technical solution that solves that.
Some more discussion from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40267446
Looks like their NPU (aka ANE) takes up about 1/3 of the die area of the GPU.

Would be interesting to see how much they’re _actually_ utilizing the NPU versus their GPU for AI workloads.
I'm not sure which gen Mac Pro they have, but the current ones aren't that much thinner than the OG cheese grater Macs from 15 years ago.

In fact the current Gen is bigger than the trashcan ones by quite a bit (although IIRC the trash can Macs had user replaceable SSDs and GPUs)
The non replaceable battery is I believe the way the make old ipads obsolete.
Apple is indeed struggling and need to cut costs in every conceivable way
November 2023 for the M3 refresh, M2 was January 2023 if I remember well.
It's a tablet/ultrabook chip, are you expecting an Threadripper in them?
I find this to be true in many areas of life, esp. in recent years. My perfect trail running shoe was made in 2006. My perfect car was made in 2008. Those products are no longer made, and the new ones are not "better", just "different". (Often worse tbh)

We get to buy the product someone is willing to make, not the product we want to buy. The product is often not "better" for the user, but for the company making it. And as a user you can just FEEL it dripping from every new thing. It's not appealing at all to me.

There must be an economics term that describes this. I've taken to calling it "supply side rules everything around me"
Xbox was at their prime on the 360 era, they sold almost as many consoles as Sony did PS3. Ever since then they are selling half of PlayStation and their current consoles are tracking behind the previous generation in sales launch-aligned. Even with GamePass which is undeniably great value for gamers.

Seems they are now seriously considering becoming a third party publisher and release all their games or at least most on PlayStation and Switch, which honestly makes sense considering the amount of new development studios they acquired that used to release their games for every platform available, there are not enough Xbox consoles with paying customer to sustain all those studios I think.
That's bullshit. Does that mean they could have doubled battery life if they kept the performance the same? Impossible.
The article said you should stick with what you know and are productive with. For you, the article recommends Django as your first choice.
QD-oled reduces it by like 25% I think? But maybe that will never be in laptops, I'm not sure.
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/finance/the-private-equity-deal-that-fla...
How to add an RSS feed to your SvelteKit app
I also always liked the joke about "every diode can be a light emitting diode at least once"
I think he did say the line was retooled, but the factory is used for different rockets at the same time. The Vulcan and the Atlas were always in production at the same time.
Road resurfacing during the daytime without stopping traffic [video]
They asked for more info, isn’t that like the opposite of cargoculting?
[dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40262082
I actually love PowerShell and use it extensively to automate Hyper-V labs, but there's a big difference between automation and one-off things like a checkbox to enable nested virtualization. There's also a large portion of users looking for something just good enough as a desktop GUI to manage just a few VMs with no automation, and Hyper-V Manager is definitely behind when compared to VirtualBox or VMware Workstation in that regard.
I wanted the new apple pencil pro but it only works on the new ipads :( I have the m2 ipad pro. Literally there's no need but I love to draw on mine and that pencil with the accelerometer and gyroscope sounds amazing in procreate. I think we'll start seeing artwork where you can see the difference in brush work.
It's a common scenario. Bars, coffee shops, trains, universities, etc. all offer free public wifi with DHCP outside your control.
Darn it. Oh well.
Encapsulate and encrypt in the app itself, or in the browser.

App (via the openziti sdk):
https://blog.openziti.io/no-listening-ports

Browser (the openziti js sdk loads on the fly):
https://blog.openziti.io/introducing-openziti-browzer

Disclosure: openziti (apache v2) maintainer
Oh yeah, thanks for reminding me to refund that game, since I can't run it on geforce now, and it has denuvo so I won't install it on my own computer.
There's a good case for expanding slightly on plaintext. It's not just decorative - some usecases like Right-to-Left or lists or linked are helped by a little markup, and HTML is good enough.

The problem is going overboard on CSS (maybe none should be allowed) or allowing any javascript at all. I can't recall any email security issue ever which is HTML only without any CSS or javascript.